Rep. Liz Cheney says January 6 committee won't let Trump testify publicly to avoid 'a circus' - CNN

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Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, co-chair of the House Select Committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection, said the committee expects erstwhile President Donald Trump would attest down closed doors if helium complies with the committee’s subpoena, and said the committee wants to debar turning Trump’s grounds into governmental theater.

Cheney said successful an interrogation with NBC News connected Sunday she expects Trump volition comply with a subpoena from the committee that called connected the erstwhile President to attest and stock prime documents with investigators. Cheney said the committee plans to dainty Trump’s grounds “with large seriousness.”

“We are going to proceed successful presumption of questioning of the erstwhile President nether oath,” Cheney said. “It whitethorn instrumentality aggregate days, and it volition beryllium done with a level of rigor and subject and seriousness that it deserves.”

Asked astir the anticipation of Trump testifying publicly, Cheney said the committee volition dainty his grounds “with large seriousness.”

“(Trump)’s not going to crook this into a circus,” Cheney said. “This isn’t going to be, you know, his archetypal statement against Joe Biden and the circus and the nutrient combat that that became. This is simply a acold excessively superior acceptable of issues.”

The committee formally sent its subpoena to Trump’s attorneys connected past week aft announcing its volition to bash truthful astatine its astir caller proceeding earlier this month. The subpoena orders Trump to crook implicit documents to the committee by November 4 and look for “one oregon much days of deposition grounds opening connected our astir November 14.”

Cheney said the committee has “many, galore alternatives” if Trump does not yet comply with the committee’s subpoena, though she did not elaborate connected what those alternatives would be.

CLARIFICATION: This communicative has been updated to amended bespeak Cheney’s effect astir the anticipation of unrecorded tv grounds by erstwhile President Donald Trump.